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“say the system fails everyone in one way or another. Everyone is traumatized by people as they grow up. It’s a part of life, of being human.”
― Zepphora, Myers

“I’m taking your cameo in my recurring nightmare as consent, but if I’m wrong… I dunno, like, jiggle in your frame or something.”
― Vera Valentine, Unhinged

“My big, strong door. You did such a good job protecting me, saving me, making me feel so amazing.” My hips had started to lightly thrust into her hand, and she adjusted her grip seamlessly, moving blissfully faster now as she murmured praise to me. “Now I need you to do something for me, can you be a good boy and come for me?”
― Vera Valentine, Unhinged

“She was going to come very soon at this rate, orgasming in public, unable to control herself. Who knew what she’d do next in her frenzied state. I’m sorry, officer, I didn’t mean to fellate this minotaur in the middle of the dining room, but you see, he’s been playing so fucking hard to get that I snapped.”
― C.M. Nascosta, Morning Glory Milking Farm

“It’s what you do when you’ve experienced the worst of the worst. You seek out people like you…people worse off than you…and you use them to make yourself feel better about the terrible things that have happened to you.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“What you read will taste so bad at times, you’ll want to spit it out, but you’ll swallow these words and they will become part of you, part of your gut, and you will hurt because of them.”
― Colleen Hoover, Verity

“The ecstasy gripped me, my shadow slipping out of control, and we were flung higher, stopping right under the ceiling, our joined bodies turning and turning, May on top, me on top, May on top…”
― Layla Fae, Wed to the Lich

“And as I watched my bride in wonder, delighting in her beauty and the open way she looked at me, eyes unafraid, my shadow broke free and surged for her, hungry, starving, ravenous.”
― Layla Fae, Wed to the Lich

“If too much pressure is exerted on you, you become hard like dry wood that splinters and breaks. Be like a reed that gently sways in the wind and you will regain your happiness.”
― Julia Drosten, The Lioness of Morocco

“If you want to do business in Morocco, remember this: you Europeans have clocks, but we in the Orient have time.”
― Julia Drosten, The Lioness of Morocco

“In the countryside, far removed from the guardians of the faith in the cities, people made religion their own.”
― Julia Drosten, The Lioness of Morocco

“Words are seeds, Casiopea. With words you embroider narratives, and the narratives breed myths, and there's power in the myth. Yes, the things you name have power.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“He'd fallen in love slowly and quietly, and it was a quiet sort of love, full of phrases left unsaid, laced with dreams.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“Dreams are for mortals."
"Why?"
"Because they must die.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“There was sadness in her, of course, but she didn't wish to crack like fine china either. She could not wither away. In the world of the living, one must live. And had this not been her wish? To live. Truly live.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“Look at you, like the dawn. You can't understand, of course, but one day you'll want to be new again. You'll wish to return to this moment of perfection when you were the embodiment of all promises.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“You did not rescue me,” Casiopea replied. “I opened that chest. Besides, I wasn’t a princess in a tower. I knew I’d get away one way or another, and I was not waiting for a god to liberate me.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“The things you name do grow in power, but others that are not ever whispered claw at one's heart anyway, rip it to shreds even if a syllable does not escape the lips.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“Mortals have always been frightened of the night's velvet embrace and the creatures that walk in it, and yet they find themselves mesmerized by it.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“She was but a girl from nowhere. Let the heroes save the world, save kings who must regain their crowns. Live, live, she wanted to live, and there was a way.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“When there was but a gray speck of his heart left, he bend down and kissed her again, briefly, a brush of lips. A grain of dust may contain a universe, and it was the same for him. Within that gray speck there lived his love and he gave it to Casiopea, for her to see. He'd fallen in love slowly and quietly, and it was a quiet sort of love, full of phrases left unsaid, laced with dreams. He had imagined himself a man for her, and he allowed her to see the extant of this man, and he gave her this speck of heart, which was a man, to hold for a moment before taking it back the second before it faded.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“She longed. Not for one specific thing but for everything; she had longed for a long time”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“The imagination of mortals shaped the gods, carving their faces and their myriad forms, just as the water molds the stones in its path, wearing them down through the centuries.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“Take it from me. Now is always the answer. Besides, do you have anything better to do? Mope around for a decade or two?"
Casiopea drummed her fingers against her skirt and chewed her lip. The dramatic poetry she'd read would have called for this and more. There was sadness in her, of course, but she didn't wish to crack like fine china either. She could not wither away. In the world of the living, one must live. And had this not been her wish? To live. Truly live.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“She woke to an ache so deep in her bones and such copious sorrow that she thought she would not be able to rise from bed. The world outside seemed muted and gray, which she thought fitting. Had it not been gray for her since birth? The burst of colors she had experienced during the past few days was the anomaly.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“Xibalba can be a frightful place, with its House of Knives and its House of Bats and many strange sights, but the court of the Lords of Death also possessed the allure of shadows and the glimmer of obsidian, for there is as much beauty as there is terror in the night.”
― Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Gods of Jade and Shadow

“I mean, you can't be a revolutionary after the revolution, can you? Didn't we all struggle so that kids like Lil wouldn't have to?”
― Cory Doctorow, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

“It's good versus evil, Dan. You don't want to be a post-person. You want to stay human. The rides are human. We each mediate them through our own experience. We're physically inside of them, and they talk to us through our senses. What Debra's people are building--it's hive-mind [stuff:]. Directly implanting thoughts! Jesus! It's not an experience, it's brainwashing!”
― Cory Doctorow, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

“I think that I was too self-centered to ever develop good skills as a peacemaker. In my younger days, I assumed that it was because I was smarter than everyone else, with no patience for explaining things in short words for mouthbreathers who just didn't get it.”
― Cory Doctorow, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom

“So it fell to Lil to make sure that there were no bugs in the meager attractions of Liberty Square: the Hall of the Presidents, the Liberty Belle riverboat, and the glorious Haunted Mansion, arguably the coolest attraction to come from the fevered minds of the old-time Disney Imagineers.”
― Cory Doctorow, Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom